Writing exercise from Plein Air Writing Workshop, led by Kathe Izzo, at the education center and grounds of Olana, Hudson, NY, this morning

For this exercise, write of a door, a way-in that reveals itself to you...  step out into nature, look, listen, let yourself become aware... first find the door, then write about it...

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The door is hidden on the
wall behind the medieval
tapestry, an intricate weave
of green and browns and
black skeletal forms of
bare trees in relief against
a woolly blaze of ornate
foliage, made up each of
just a stitch - or a
single leaf, or smaller
than that, a cell, but
then accreting, accumu-
lating with wild
plenitude, emphatic in
its exposition, depicting
a landscape beneath
grey skies, at which a
needlepointed woman, in a
black knit sweater, stands at a
stone wall & writes.

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image:
The Unicorn is Found, second of seven Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestries, 1495-1505, Southern Netherlands, wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, 145 x 149in. (368.3 x 378.5cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters